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This one may not die quietly: CNN's Rick Sanchez yesterday called Jon Stewart a "bigot," though he later changed that to "prejudicial" and "uninformed." Then he seemed to suggest that CNN and other networks are run by Jews: "I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart. And to imply that somehow they—the people in this country who are Jewish— are an oppressed minority? Yeah."

Sanchez is frequently a target of Stewart and Stephen Colbert, notes Mediaite (which provides audio of his radio interview in the gallery), and there's no love lost between the camps. It's possible that Sanchez didn't mean to pull out the Jews-run-the-media card and instead was smearing "snooty white liberal elites who don't understand minorities," writes Greg Sargent at his Plum Line blog. In any event, he's taking a beating from critics. More at AOL News.

Ricardo Sanchez's comments are typical of the "sons of immigrants," Hispanics that have a negative attitude toward Jews based in the religious traditions that their parents taught them. it is ironic that there is no group of people that has given more of their personal charitable contributions at the community level to the recent immigrants and supported their representatives in the Congress for the Amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants working in the U.S.they have been campaigning for, yet they are vilified by the Hispanics as a gracias for their efforts.

MattGordonMD

Oct 1, 2010 10:48 PM CDT

Ricardo Sanchez and his outsized ego failed to include in the list of Jewish-dominated fields: medicine/science and banking. There might be an opening at one of the local affiliates back in Miami. Well maybe just Univision or one of the Latin-managed stations not owned or managed by Jews. Adios, Rick.